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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Julieta
Beltran Lazo

I am an artist who revises and re-imagines history. Through making – embroidering, painting, drawing, and writing– I examine my relationship to the celebrations and grievances that accompany Mexico’s recent history, approaching them from an affective subjectivity, to challenge the heroic narratives and nationalist perspective through which official history is told. Mediating between lived experiences, my fantasies and fears, news outlets, family archives, and popular culture, I start a practice of archiving and repurposing images from and about home, developing a language that deals with the tensions between affect and impotence.



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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

A media asta

Oil paint on canvas
12" by 12"


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Represión I

Oil on Canvas
12" by 12"


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Un acto más: sin conclusión fija

Embroidery thread on muslin
10 1/4" by 16 3/4"

This is part of a series of hand-embroidered poems, written as letters address to "la patria" (the homeland) with which I question and challenge my relationship to my home country, Mexico.


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Los cariñitos de Belia

Oil paint on canvas
14" by 14 "


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Por las calles de Jalisco

Acrylic paint and embroidery thread on muslin
12" by 12"

This embroidered painting belongs to a series titled "Entre lo doméstico y lo cotidiano", which examines the increase of military presence in Mexico as a consequence of the declaration of the "War on Drugs" in 2006.


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Quema

Acrylic paint and embroidery thread on canvas
10" by 11"

Also belonging to "Entre lo doméstico y lo cotidiano",  this particular work depicts the burning of seized narcotics.


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Entre islas desiertas

Oil and cold wax on canvas
24" by 24"


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Preludio

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
28 3/4" by 30 1/2"


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Painting by Julieta Beltran Lazo

Poética del movimiento II

Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
34" by 34"

Part of my thesis series "Layered Gestures of Dance",  in this body of work I explore the different languages of dance and choreographies of movement, as to question the implicit and explicit gestures of gender performance in relation to the context of the extreme gender violence in Mexico.